Sentences with phrase «small communities which»

Having lived and worked as a public defender and a prosecutor in the far north of Canada, I can see similarities in remote small communities which experience tragedies of the nature described in this book.
Having lived in both large and small cities, I found that within the large cities people still form small communities which afford a person familiarity, but anonymity remains an option when necessary.
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Vaughan is composed of smaller communities which are Concord, Maple, Thornhill, Maple, Kleinberg and Woodbridge.

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There is an active small business blogging community, Twitter networks and other online forums which make it far easier today to get help.
The smallest U.S. banks, which tend be community lenders with a handful of branches, have also seen deposits decline, according to an analysis by investment bank FIG Partners.
The plan allows small community banks to borrow from the Treasury Department's TARP program, which initially only applied to big banks, and it raises the maximum size of SBA loans.
But community banks, many of which are small businesses themselves, have gotten caught in something of a triple whammy.
And community banks, of which there are more than 6,000 in the United States, depend on new loans to small businesses to make money.
We are all about growing the small business community and raising awareness for small businesses — which is why we love publishing your articles!
«Running a successful community takes about $ 10,000 - $ 25,000 a month in resources if you want to do it right,» says Calacanis, which he acknowledges isn't within the budgets of many small businesses.
Each meet for a total of six hours to build partnerships and offer suggestions for solving the problems within their individual topic areas, which include high - growth entrepreneurship, small business, early childhood education and community investing.
The to - be-announced market is the window through which much of this scale occurs; it levels the playing field for smaller loan originators and community banks and enables lenders to offer longer rate - locks for borrowers.
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One rabble - rouser, Arianna Huffington, has concocted a remarkable stunt, which she calls the Move Your Money Project, to rally consumers to transfer their deposits from big banks to small community banks across the U.S. Alas, there's no run yet on Citigroup
Sun Media, which is a subsidiary of Montreal - based Quebecor Inc. (TSX: QBR.B) is also closing eight publications in smaller communities in several provinces including three francophone publications in Quebec.
The groundwater study is just a small part of the 2,000 - page report, which was designed to examine how the pipeline would affect Nebraska communities and natural resources.
[3] This disparity might be attributed to less competition in smaller communities, which usually have to pay more to attract physicians.
And community bankers point to the strength of their relationship banking model, which can be an advantage in some markets, such as small business lending.
Crypto Printing: Because there are so many possibilities with 3D printing, and because the Bitcoin community is relatively small, each new request is pretty unique — we've not come anywhere close to exploring the range of possible designs which can be made.
Jeff's passion for teaching is apparent in CMIT Solutions» comprehensive franchisee training program, which equips all new and existing franchisees with the tools necessary to serve their respective communities with the best IT support available for small and medium - size businesses.
Maria, however, blew out windows at some hospitals and police stations, turned some streets into roaring rivers and destroyed hundreds of homes across Puerto Rico, including 80 percent of houses in a small fishing community near the San Juan Bay, which unleashed a storm surge of more than 4 feet.
If you are in Quebec, you might apply for the Youth Strategy Program CED - CFDC, which may provide a personal loan of between $ 5000 and $ 15,000 and personalized assistance to young entrepreneurs who want to start, expand or modernize a small business «within the territory of one of Quebec's Community Futures Development Corporations».
The company also has an employee - driven volunteering platform, Beedie Cares, which focuses on «small dollar, big impact» initiatives supporting children, seniors, and families in our community.
Additionally, Bernie helped pass the Small Business Jobs Act, which gave low interest loans to small businesses and supported the small community banks through which the loans were disbuSmall Business Jobs Act, which gave low interest loans to small businesses and supported the small community banks through which the loans were disbusmall businesses and supported the small community banks through which the loans were disbusmall community banks through which the loans were disbursed.
While in the graduate program there, she enjoyed spending time identifying ways in which non-profits and small businesses could develop into strong and profitable organizations that while promoting strong community growth.
So, as a small business owner, the substantive relationship you have with your local banker, or the social capital you've built within your community over years, if not decades — which propels enormous goodwill, customer loyalty, and economic value — means little, if anything, to regulators.
Climate change is an important issue to the long - term health of our community and the world, however policies in our relatively small jurisdiction which are not aligned with the realities in other Canadian provinces and the United States put us at a competitive disadvantage.
That includes funding awards to boost entrepreneurship in communities, the Business Smart Toolkit from the U.S. Small Business Administration and the National Association for Government Guaranteed Lenders — which will assist new entrepreneurs in building a credit - ready business — and the expansion of the The Innovation Corps program, which provides entrepreneurship training for scientists and engineers.
I am so tired of the gay community (which is a very, very small group people) trying to impose their logic on everyone.
He'd have a pulpit from which he could address his small community tucked away in South Carolina's mountainous corner.
That number was a «total church budget» number, so it would include community outreach and missions (which tends to be a fairly small percentage in most church budgets).
The community which they organized was on a very small scale.
For Christians exile has been not only a condition forced upon a small group of people but a state into which everyone was called by God for their human maturation — a place of formation, where attitudes and motivations were molded by a community without earthly roots.
For she may recognize small groups of Christians which develop independently of the territorial principle as Christian communities with the same institutional stability and rights that have so far been accorded only to the parishes.
But the only way in which one can be a participant in that great tradition is through a willing sharing in the small cell of the Body in the place where one happens to live — and such willing sharing will have the double effect of strengthening both one's own faith and the community of faith.
Rather than conceptualising a larger community to which media outlets have a social responsiblity, society tends now to be seen commercially as a composition of smaller «markets», to which the various media address themselves.
Twice each year, I take two bus - loads of high school students on retreats at which they worship, walk labyrinths, talk in small groups with adults who care about them, and «hang out» in Christian community.
But it could be the nucleus of a complete neighborhood, one which has a church community at its enter, and the potential to promote growth in an urban rather than suburban sprawl pattern (much as the most beautiful parts of contemporary London grew in the 17th and 18th centuries around small residential - square developments).
The state must cease to be a machina machinarum which «strangles the individuality of small associations» and must become instead a communitas communitatum — a union of communities within which the proper autonomous life of each community can unfold.
In the space of a single generation Christian communities were established in most of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, and as far west as Italy: a remarkable achievement for a society which started with a handful of humble folk from the small towns of a petty «native state».
But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.
Robert C. Leslie identifies these salient points at which small groups played a vital role in church history: Christ and his disciples, the Apostolic church, Montanism, monasticism, the Waldenses, the Franciscans, the Friends of God, the Brethren of the Common Life, German pietism, the Anabaptists, the Society of Friends, the Wesleyan revival, the Great Awakening, the Iona Community, the Emmanuel Movement, and the Oxford Group Movement (from which came Alcoholics Anonymous).
New churches, schools and Catholic institutions were constantly being opened, and the Catholic community was a vibrant one, the small nucleus of «Old Catholics» having been augmented by Anglican converts and Irish emigrants — from which groups came Francis Bourne's own family.
The operation of such a ruling group is pictured in the story of Boaz» negotiations for the redemption of Naomi's property (Ruth 4:1 - 12); the narrative is presumably from a comparatively late time, but the councils of elders persisted in the smaller communities right through Old Testament history, so there is ground for believing that the author relates practice with which he was familiar.
As various small autonomous communities were established around some lay people, men and women, which maintained links through their authorities and their catechists, at the end of 1800, the growth of Christianity was enough to disturb the political authorities and in 1801, provoked the first persecution.
Our Catholic community here in Tintagel is quite small and for decades I have had no official time which is just for Confessions as so few were coming.
But Jesus did not live in a vacuum; he lived in a community: the larger community of Israel, and the smaller, more intimate community which formed itself about him and of which he was himself a part.
A break in one connection, such as attachment to a stable community, puts pressure on other connections: marriage, the relationship between parents and children, religious affiliation, a feeling of connection with the past, even citizenship, that sense of membership in a large community which grows best when it is grounded in membership in a small one.
Working out of his small, cluttered office at Adrian University, where he teaches political science, the seemingly indefatigable Khan stepped into the role of public intellectual for the U.S. Muslim community after 9/11 with incisive articles such as «Memo to Mr. Bin Laden: Go to Hell,» which was picked up by more than a dozen news agencies around the world.
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